Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-08
THE NATIONS FINANCES.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY
or THE TREASURY.

Thc New senators-Tae Heading OF the
s%snate's Standing Committees = Con.
gressional Business-The British Peace
Commission Explains Its Purposes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. THE twenty-six
senators who took the oath of Office at
this session are called new men, but
eleven Of them have been sitting in the
senate for years, and are their own sue
cessors. Others have been in the senate
before-for example, Mr.. Turpie, who
took the place Of Mr. Bright when he
was expelled for ~disloyalty, and Mr..
Paddock, who last winter defeated Mr..
Van WICK as six years earlier Mr.. Van
Wyck had defeated him. MI. Stewart,
OF Nevada, Is n OF those who return to
the scenes Of activity in the past after a
considerable period Of retirement. Mr..
Stewart Is 6 tall, large man, whose beard
and hair are white, and who makes q
very imposing appearance. Many years
ago he built the house now occupied by
the Chinese legation on Dupont circle.
There was then no other house in the
vicinity, and Senator Stewards residence
was known indifferently as Stewards
CASTLE and ''ths honest miners camp,
Mr. Stewart has taken a seat pretty well
around on Che Republican side, In the
back row, and has Senator Farrell on
one aide of him.
Mr.. Hiscock sits close by in the sarna
row. He is not quite so heavy a man in
tellectually as his face in repose would
indicate, and, ii he be a new senator he
certainly is not new here la any other
sense after all the years he has spent in
the house of representatives.
With him there has just come over
from the house of Representatives Judge
Reagan, Of Texas, whose state rewarded
him for his twelve years. fight in the
house against the soulless corporations
with a promotion to a higher sphere of
enjoy ment just as soon as the Reagan
Dullom Interstate commerce law had
been passed.
MIR. Turpie sat with Senator voorhees,
for a while, and then moved over to tho
extreme. right on the democratic side In
the middle row of seats, at the desk in
scribed with his name.
MI. Pasco, OF Florida, sat behind him.
Mr.. Pasco ID of a rather slender build.
With coal-black hair, and mustache and
goatee.
Mr.. Faulkner sat in the seat the senate
officials hare assigned him, and toysd
with tho blonde tuft Of hair on his chin,
while his rival, Lucas, short and hump
backed, sat in q chair against the wall
and held a tall white hat in his hand.
MI. Blodgett, the new senator from
New Jersey, has the very little hair on
his head cut close, and he shaves his
cheeks and chin and has bis mustache
trimmed short. He has taken one of the
three seats on the democratic side that
foFn 9 r~udimentary row In the rear Of tho
others.
In the corresponding bobtailed row on
the other side Senator Chandler, ex.sec-
rotary Of the navy, has a chair, and this
small, brisk, sharp-eyed gentleman from
New Hampshire, Is expected to devote
himself to showing that the Chicago.
Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin are good
ships, In spite OF ANYTHING Secretary
W~hitney's subordinates may say about
them.
Mr.. Davis, of Minnesota, has got a
seat In the rear row OF republican seats,
Mr.. Farwell, and the senators who
winter had these retired positions
are now near the front. Senator Cullom
to Senator Logan's seat in the
row, and close to the center last
winter, and Senator Spooner has now an
eligible seat near the center OF the repub-
Leans, while Gen. Henderson. who used
view the proceedings from the nearest
d the seats, is now near Mr.. Spooner.